“THE RACE DOOMED”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 212, 10 September 1935, Page 7

“THE RACE DOOMED”

SURVIVAL OF UNFIT THE BEST DESTROYED WAR AND UNEMPLOYMENT SALVATIONIST’S OPINION LONDON, Sept. 8. < ommissioncr Lamb, addressing lha British Association, declared; “The race is doomed, and Calvin and Darwin have destroyed us. Subtle reasonings on predestination and natural selection have so seized thinkers and the mass of the people that they acquiesce in an economic system throwing 25 per cent, of the workers on the scrap heap. They tolerate poor housing and overcrowding, which are re-’ sponsible for dangerous sex stimulation, resulting in breeding at the wrong end. The fittest are not surviving, as war destroys the best, and unemployment lowers the physical, spiritual, and moral standards. “We have the right to expect the scientists, especially engineers and eugenists, to find a way of escape. We cannot hold an Empire in which the population is so ill distributed in tho face of the pressure from Italy, Germany, China and Japan, Nations which deliberately destroy food and j pay a premium to producers not to produce, while millions are underfed and poorly clad, cannot survive. Scientists must reconcile- individualism, formerly our glory, with collectivism, which is now a political necessity.”